cloud.mail.ru direct download

[mrtrollson]

Here's a way to get a (temporary) direct download link from a regular cloud.mail.ru link, for those who don't want to use JDownloader and maybe want to make their own scripts.

(as of 2023. This could stop working anytime)

Links look like this: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/<ID>
with <ID> having the form <PART1>/<PART2> but that's not important.

First parse the HTML page to find something like

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"weblink_get":

For example with this command:

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curl -A '' https://cloud.mail.ru/public/<ID> | grep -oP '"weblink_get":.*?"url":\s*"(https:[^"]+)'

With this you should find a URL, which we will call the base url. If there was just one file shared in the link, you can get a DLL like so:
<base url>/<ID>

Otherwise, go to https://cloud.mail.ru/api/v2/folder?weblink=<ID> to get a listing of the files and directories there. This is a JSON file. Everything is in body > list. The type field tells you if it's a file or directory, and you get an ID in the weblink field. You can then get a DDL for a particular file with the method above, the DLL would be <base url>/<ID> with <ID> the ID you got from the weblink field.

(Note: didn't test this with directories yet)

[ZRH]

"don't want to use JDownloader"

nah im good with a download manager

[plmqazy]

Thanks, this was actually really useful!

[Kemalettin]

I'm fine with JDownloader but having an alternative wouldn't hurt. I'll try this out.

[kalogeorge]

I have noticed the VPN+JDownloader combination does not work.
Any ideas why?

[platformers123]

Thanks, mrtrollson!
So, if you have a folder, you have to
1) Go to https://cloud.mail.ru/api/v2/folder?weblink=<ID> to get the list of files
2) Add the <ID> and <file name of desired file> to the weblink obtained from "weblink_get":{"count":"1","url":"<url>".

There must be some way to have a script that shows the list of files in the terminal and that lets you select the desired file, then parse it to the weblink in step 2.
Does anybody know how to do this in bash?

[Fatman]

Does this bypass the need to having a logged in cloud.mail.ru account in order to download files?